How to add a config file to git with sensitive information

• Create a barebones file for the config page, without sensitive information
• git status
• git add <file>
• git commit -m "adding barebones config file, put your sensitive info here"
• git push
• vi .gitignore
• Add the <file> from above to the .gitignore
• git rm --cached <file>
• This should remove the file from git tracking
• Be carefull of the -f flag it'll remove the file completly
• Use your deploy program to move over the file during deployment
• Since this seems to fail often try git update-index --assume-unchanged <file>